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My DVD player ate our bad movie pick 10 minutes in and I realized how much has changed
Last Friday my buddies came over for bad movie night and we picked a real stinker off the shelf, some 1987 sci-fi mess with a cover that promised way more than it gave. About 10 minutes in the DVD player started making this awful grinding noise and just ate the disc, wouldn't give it back no matter how many times I hit eject. We ended up poking a butter knife in the slot to fish it out, and the disc came back with a scratch shaped like a rainbow. Back in high school we would have just kept watching on VHS, tracking lines and all, because a messed up tape never fully quit on you. Now everything is streaming and one little wifi hiccup freezes the whole screen for 30 seconds while everyone just stares at the buffer wheel. We finished the movie on my laptop plugged into the TV with an HDMI cable, and honestly the rip looked worse than the disc would have. Does anyone else keep a player around just for bad movies, or am I the last person on earth still buying discs at the flea market?
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paige87010d ago
My uncle had one of those Samsung combo VHS/DVD units that weighed about 40 pounds, and he kept it until 2016 mainly because his copy of Road House was taped off TV in 1993 and he refused to let it go. The tracking was so bad during the fight scenes that everyone looked like they were made of static, but he swore it added something. I get why you still hit the flea market, a scratched disc feels like a real object you own instead of a thumbnail you're renting. My old player finally died last year and I just didn't replace it, but I still think about that drawer of loose discs I never got rid of. Streaming is easier until it isn't and then you're all just watching a loading circle like it's a campfire.
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